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I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.

Barbara Kingsolver

…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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Kindness Momentous Shoulder World
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Meaningful Pain Spiritual
Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
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Airplane Staring Steps
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Air Hot Ignorance
All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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Politician Promise War
Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Everything Right Sure Travel
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Decided Dresses Memorable
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Fountain People Thinking Want
I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Art Failing Political

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